Posts tagged with 'Horror'

Eyeless women, horrifying rituals and Jack the Ripper: the Hodderscape team have our Halloween reading list sorted. Now all we need is candlelight, an atmospheric storm and a few bumps in the night when we’re home alone.
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This month we’ve returned to a favourite fantasy series, been unexpectedly wowed by a Marvel franchise, and seen horror in a new light. Here are the best things the team has read and watched in March.
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While we all grew up wishing Pokemon were real and are spending our adult years yearning for space travel, there are some fantasy worlds we couldn’t be paid to visit. Here’s a few of the most terrifying places found in science fiction and fantasy.
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Irish folklore goes deep when it comes to weird creatures, spooky old women and epic tales of magic and wizardry. Leprechauns barely scratch the surface, and you’re more likely to bag yourself a horrific generation-spanning curse than a pot of gold when dealing with legendary Irish figures. Here are some of the best myths, legends and folklore from the home of Halloween, along with where you might spot them in contemporary fantasy and horror.
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Take a walk down a scary path into the woods. It’s getting darker. The shadows seem to move, take shape, become almost human. You hear a noise and you run. Is that a cabin up ahead? You hear a howl, something moves at the edges of your perception and the dead start to rise. You’re in a book, or a film, or maybe both…
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In Season 3, Episode 13 of The Greatest Show of All Time Xander Harris voices a time old lament: ‘It’s just that it’s buggin’ me, this ‘cool’ thing. I mean, what is it? How do you get it? Who doesn’t have it? And who decides who doesn’t have it? What is the essence of cool?’. Well Xander, your best friend is in love with one and you’re on a show about them. It’s vampires.
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I’ve been feeling a little nostalgic for my youth recently. Perhaps it’s the fact nineties fashion is back with a vengeance (yes, I wore those slip dresses and tattoo chokers first time around, thank you very much). Or maybe it’s the endless Buffy re-runs I’ve been treating myself to. Chiefly though, I think it was the discovery of some old Point Horrors on a dusty shelf at my parents’ house.
Ah, Point Horror – my sole means of entertainment in the early nineties.
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Some of the scariest horror out there is ambiguous and subtle, creeping you out with lingering unanswered questions. And then there are what we might call creature features – gloriously gross, sensationally shabby, no-holds-barred celebrations of (wo)man vs. nature. But today’s creature features can have finesse too. It just takes a little time and patience to search out the really good ones from the wonderful mess of low-budget space aliens and post-atomic giant termites (and tornado-borne sharks) crowding your Netflix queue.
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